Re: getXXX methods

Once possibility is to use Double.parseDouble(s).byteValue()

so the code would become

try
{
    Byte.parseByte(s)
}
catch(NumberFormatException e)
{
    try
    {
        return Double.parseDouble(s).ByteValue();
    }
    catch( NumberFormatException ne )
    {
        throw exception;
    }
}

Dave
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 14:46, Kris Jurka wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Dave Cramer wrote:
>
> > There is a table in the jdbc spec which suggests that
> > there is a preferred method for getting the column information, and at
> > non-preferred method.
> >
> > would all the numeric values be truncated ?
> >
> > What do we do with char, varchar, longvarchar ?
>
> It's tough to say.  Looking at the current situation for retrieving double
> values with getInt() the current driver will throw an Exception on a out
> of range value because it starts with a String and uses Integer.parseInt()
> on it.  Contrast this with the result of
>
> Double d = new Double(Double.MAX_VALUE);
> System.out.println(d.intValue());
>
> which truncates the double to Integer.MAX_VALUE.  The javadocs are
> useless, but I prefer the Exception to silent truncation, so I would
> suggest getByte can be used on any integer value of -128 to 127 regardless
> of its storage form (like text).  The question of comparing floating point
> numbers should be the same, but we may run into problems when 1 is
> represented as 1.00000001.
>
> Kris Jurka
>
>
>
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>
>
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